It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta Platforms. 14 in the 2022 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2022. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers.
Microsoft's best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, and the Edge web browser. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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